{"id":622696,"date":"2026-07-01T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=827598"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:30:06","slug":"binance-and-cz-sued-for-200-million-in-uk-over-unauthorized-derivatives-sold-to-1700-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/binance-and-cz-sued-for-200-million-in-uk-over-unauthorized-derivatives-sold-to-1700-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance and CZ Sued for $200 Million in UK Over \u2018Unauthorized\u2019 Derivatives Sold to 1,700 Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/binance-and-cz-sued-for-150-million-in-uk-over-unauthorized-derivatives-sold-to-1700-traders2_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image of the UK flag\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Nearly 1,700 UK investors have filed a \u00a3150 million (nearly $200 million) claim against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao in London\u2019s High Court, alleging the exchange sold them high-risk crypto derivatives it was never authorized to offer. A Decade-Old Marketing Push Under Scrutiny The claimants allege that Binance began marketing complex leveraged derivative products to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1,700 UK investors have filed a \u00a3150 million (nearly $200 million) claim against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao in London\u2019s High Court, alleging the exchange sold them high-risk crypto derivatives it was never authorized to offer. A Decade-Old Marketing Push Under Scrutiny The claimants allege that Binance began marketing complex leveraged derivative products to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}